No these books are for the most part, stand alone.
If there was anything I’d say to have in place before doing a lot of these, it would be protections. Lost of these books assume the reader is already somehow intermediate and knows how to recognise and banish anything that came when you didn’t want it to, but for most of us that’s not the case, and you do get the occasional story on here of people that got attacked, weren’t equipped to deal with it and it caused bad luck, strife and sickness in their lives.
So I have a little burb pointing to the forum free stuff on these, and if nothing else that book recommendation for Robert Bruce’s Psychic Protection Handbook in the Spiritual Hygiene thread will put you in a good place…
Here is a getting started with magick guide. You’ll want to get your spiritual hygiene sorted out, and start work on developing your astral senses.